Head Of Individual Giving Jobs
Are you passionate about creating a positive impact in the lives of patients and their families?
St Giles Hospice is actively recruiting a talented Head of Fundraising to lead their dedicated fundraising team for several months, starting as soon as possible.
Job title: Head of Fundraising
Salary: £50,000 per annum
Location: Whittington, Lichfield
Contract: 6 months maternity contract
Hours: Full-time 37.5 hours, flexible for the right candidate with a hybrid working model
Benefits: 25 days plus bank holiday, life assurance, enhanced sick pay, group pension scheme (contribution up to 8%), wellbeing support, eye tests, flu vaccine, enhanced maternity, and paternity benefits, shared parental leave, employee discount, car scheme and free parking.
*Training and development opportunities available*
About the Hospice:
St Giles Hospice is committed to providing care and support to those with a terminal illness and their loved ones, believing in the power of community to positively impact lives.
The opportunity:
As Head of Fundraising, you will have experience overseeing various income streams, including individual giving, regional fundraising, corporate partnerships, and in-memory fundraising. The key responsibilities include:
- Provide general oversight and line management support to our fundraising and lottery teams, comprising 26 dedicated individuals. You'll offer specific guidance and support to a core group of 7 team members.
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills to drive performance across various income streams, ensuring success in individual giving, regional fundraising, corporate partnerships, and in-memory fundraising.
- Offer operational support to the team, ensuring smooth day-to-day practices and leveraging your strong fundraising background to provide expert guidance.
- Foster a resilient team culture, actively developing team members to increase their confidence and effectiveness. Your proactive approach will be instrumental in helping the team navigate challenges.
About You:
We are seeking a seasoned professional with an excellent track record in a similar position. You will possess strong leadership and team-building skills, as well as bring a strategic approach to achieving development within the team and financial targets. Most importantly, you will act as an ambassador and advocate for the Hospice.
If this has sparked your interest, and you are ready to be part of a team that values kindness, teamwork, compassion, and community, then contact Zelda Leader and Priya Vencatasawmy at Charity People. Due to the sensitive nature of the role, we are accepting applications on a rolling basis, which means the role can close at any stage, so please do reach out if this impacts you in any way.
Closing Date: Rolling basis
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
Hours: Full-time
Remuneration: £47,250 gross annual (dependent on experience)
Duration: Permanent
Location: Manchester, UK (hybrid working available), with up to 40% of time on international deployment
Applications from people with an existing legal right to work in the UK are only accepted.
Can you ensure the safety and security of our humanitarian health teams as they deploy around the world?
UK-Med is a humanitarian NGO that has been responding to disasters for over thirty years. We prepare and equip medical teams, both in the UK and worldwide, so they are ready to respond when epidemics, conflict and natural disasters hit. When Ebola struck West Africa in 2014 we recruited and trained UK doctors and nurses who helped local medical teams and other NGOs to bring the outbreak under control. We are core partners, providing the clinical component and key support structures of the UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT) in line with WHO standards.
We are recruiting a Head of Security to ensure effective safety and security arrangements are in place for the UK EMT. Our new Head of Security will lead on strategic and operational management of safety and security for the UK EMT. You will design, draft and disseminate overarching safety and security plans and crisis management plans and attendant structures, and will advise Team Leaders in the field including deploying with large responses as required. It is a standalone role and you will be responsible for all areas of security management.
Our ideal candidate will bring significant security expertise developed through significant experience working in the humanitarian sector (expected to be at least 5 years) including in insecure environments, and who is willing to spend up to 40% of their time on deployment as part of our responses.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits along with a friendly working environment and the opportunity to make a real difference through and influential role in humanitarian programming.
How to apply
We strongly recommend that you read the Candidate Information Pack - Head of Security - April 2024 before applying for this role.
To apply, please submit a current CV and a supporting letter (2 pages) through our online jobs portal.
Your covering letter must include a detailed explanation of your suitability for this post with specific reference to the criteria in the person specification
Applications must be submitted no later than Wednesday 1 May 2024
UK-Med is committed to safeguarding of our personnel and beneficiaries and has a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation and abuse. We conduct thorough vetting before any appointment is confirmed.
UK-Med is committed to the principles of diversity, equality, and inclusion. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive environment where employees feel respected and supported to be able to fulfil their potential.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Parkinson’s UK – Head of Major Gifts
Location: London Victoria, SW1V, hybrid working (minimum of two days per week in person working). Occasional travel will also be required.
Salary: £65k - £70k, depending on experience.
Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week (part time working and compressed hours also considered).
Parkinson’s UK is seeking an exceptional and experienced, innovative leader to shape their high value strategy to deliver significant growth in income and the charity’s established high value fundraising.
Parkinson's UK is there for everyone affected by Parkinson's. By funding the right research into the most promising treatments, they are moving closer to a cure every day and are the largest European charitable funder of Parkinson's research.
This role will support and inspire an ambitious and high performing team to build propositions, proposals and pipelines in order to unlock opportunities to engage the charity’s supporters and untap networks across the charity, securing vital funds to underpin their strategic programmes and ambitions for people with Parkinson’s. The post-holder will inspire supporters to give their biggest donation and ensure that the organisation is giving its supporters the best experience possible, delivering an annual income target of £6m+. The role will also play a pivotal part in driving a new multi-year, multi-million pound charity appeal.
Maximising the value and contribution of supporters is fundamental to Parkinson’s UK; building networks, understanding what motivates their supporters, and aligning programmes to their charitable interests is key to the charity’s growth plans for Major Gifts. This role will be critical to leading the philanthropy, trust and statutory, special events and prospect research and insights teams (approximately 18 people) and working with colleagues and leaders across the charity to identify prospects and opportunities to give at a transformational level. The post will also be an active member of the Fundraising Leadership Team.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in major gifts fundraising and a proven track record of securing large gifts. They will also have experience of managing a large annual income target and driving continued growth and ensuring targets are met. They will have the ability to lead, motivate and inspire multiple teams to coordinate projects and exceed fundraising targets. Strong presentation skills and budgetary skills will be combined with the ability to build positive and high-value relationships across a range of sectors, individuals, organisations and committees. Finally, they will be solutions focused with the ability to work well under pressure.
Closing date: Monday 29th April, 9.00am.
We are seeking to recruit an individual with purpose, passion and integrity to lead our Health team. In this role, you will use your skills, knowledge and experiences to help ensure movement and physical activity is embedded into health and care systems. You will work with partners across the system, in the leadership of GM Moving; our whole system approach across the city-region to reduce inactivity and grow a movement for active lives for everyone, with a specific intent to reduce physical activity and health inequalities.
Hours: 22 hours per week
Salary: NJC Points 49-53 Band H, £58,072 – £66,182 p.a. pro rata (salary to be at entry level except for exceptional circumstances)
Contract:1 year fixed term from July 2024 (maternity cover - we are open to flexible working arrangements/secondments).
Greater Manchester Moving is the Greater Manchester charity committed to changing lives by inspiring a healthier future in Greater Manchester through moving more, physical activity and sport. We play a strategic leadership role in support of the Greater Manchester wide movement, for movement.
The person appointed will be driven to make a difference to the lives of people and the places in which they move. You will play an important role in leading the Active Partnership, GM Moving, to deliver its organisational business plan as it contributes to GM Moving in Action.
You will provide executive leadership, direction and management to the health team as they provide leadership, support and connection to support the mission of Active Lives for All in support of, and working closely with, the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high performing Active Partnership team working with a network committed to making positive change through physical activity, sport and movement. You do not have to have a background in physical activity or sport but just be passionate about the difference you know it can make to people’s lives.
We have permanent office space in the House of Sport in Manchester, and regular team and co-working days in venues across Greater Manchester, blended with homeworking.
As an employer committed to flexible working, we will work around other commitments you may have; we trust you to work in a way that suits you and that enables you to be your most productive and happy.
Greater Manchester Moving is committed to providing equal opportunities and promoting diversity, irrespective of ethnicity, age, gender identity, sexuality, disability, religion, pregnancy or personal circumstance. We aspire to being a diverse, inclusive and responsible organisation.
Our aim is to have a workforce that reflects and understands the communities we work alongside. We are therefore particularly keen to receive applications from people belonging to under-represented groups.
Closing date for applications: Monday 29 April 2024, 5pm
Interview date: week commencing 6 May 2024
Greater Manchester Moving is GM’s movement for movement working together to positively change the lives of people across Greater Manchester.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.